Re: syslogd beserk (solved)
>
> Hi,
>
> Since I changed some packages and removed some others syslogd is
> constantly running on a rex/bit-of-bo system. It appends messages to
> /var/log/messages like
>
> Nov 12 11:12:05 pebbles syslogd: select: Bad file number
> Nov 12 11:12:36 pebbles last message repeated 204124 times
> Nov 12 11:13:37 pebbles last message repeated 465160 times
> Nov 12 11:14:38 pebbles last message repeated 470270 times
> Nov 12 11:15:39 pebbles last message repeated 468368 times
> Nov 12 11:16:40 pebbles last message repeated 466648 times
> Nov 12 11:17:41 pebbles last message repeated 465624 times
> Nov 12 11:18:42 pebbles last message repeated 461256 times
> Nov 12 11:19:43 pebbles last message repeated 462968 times
> Nov 12 11:20:44 pebbles last message repeated 468731 times
> Nov 12 11:21:45 pebbles last message repeated 461928 times
>
> How do I go about to find out what select call from what process is
> causing this? Or is it syslogd itself looking at some corrupted file?
> Restarting syslogd or rebooting the machine doesn't help.
Boy, responses on this list are quick these days :).
I think I found what caused it: I recently purged inn from the system.
In the /etc/syslog.conf file there were lines about files that weren't
there anymore:
# Logging for INN news system
#
news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit
news.err /var/log/news/news.err
news.notice -/var/log/news/news.notice
After commenting the lines with news.* out, syslogd became its quiet
self again. Now, isn't the postrm script from the inn package supposed
to clean this up? Iow, is this a bug that I should report?
Eric Meijer
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